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Terms of Use You may not alter, sell, or post these materials on a different server. Photocopying for students or linking to materials here does not require my permission. Comma Splices & Fused Sentences Exercise 1 Exercise 2 Exercise 3 Exercise 4 Exercise 5 Additional Item Rules for Fixing Comma Splices and Fused Sentences Back to top ▲ Fragments Exercise 1 Exercise 2 Exercise 3 Exercise 4 Exercise 5 Exercise 6 Exercise 7 Additional Items Back to top ▲ Irregular Verbs Exercise 1 Exercise 2 Exercise 3 Exercise 4 Exercise 5 Exercise 6 Additional Items Back to top ▲ Parallel Structure Exercise 1 Exercise 2 Exercise 3 Exercise 4 Exercise 5 Exercise 6 Additional Item Rules for Maintaining Parallel Structure Back to top ▲ Misplaced & Dangling Modifiers Exercise 1 Exercise 2 Exercise 3 Exercise 4 Exercise 5 Additional Item Rules for Fixing Misplaced and Dangling Modifiers Back to top ▲ Apostrophes Commas Exercise 1 Exercise 2 Exercise 3 Exercise 4 Exercise 5 [Not for the faint-hearted!]

speech accent archive: resources Bibliography of sources consulted for this archive Acharya, J. 1991. A Descriptive Grammar of Nepali and Analyzed Corpus. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press. Adive, John R.1989. The Verbal Piece In Ebira. Agard, F. and Di Pietro, R. 1965. Almeida, M. 1985. Armstrong, L. 1967. Berntsen, Maxine, et al. 1975. Burgers, M.P.O. 1967. Campbell, G. 1991. Chavarria-Aguilar, O. 1962. Chen, Wen-min. 1933. Cohen, A. et al. 1972. Cole, D. 1955. Coomber, M. Denwood, P.1999. Dixon, R. 1988. Doke, C. 1931. Doke, C. 1954. Dunn, Ernest F. 1968. English Language Services, Inc. Fallows, D. 1976. Fivaz, D. 1970. Foreign Service Institute (corp.auth.). 1960. Fyle, C.F., and Jones, E. 1980. Galley, Samuel. 1964. Glassman, E.H. 1976. Glassman, E.H. 1973. Handbook of the International Phonetic Association. 1999. Harlow, R. 2007. Herbert, R. 1974. Holm, J. 1988. Kalelkar, N.G. 1965. Karpushkin, B. 1964. Katz, David. 1987. Kaye, Alan S. Kelkar, Ashok Ramchandra. Kelly, John. 1974. Morev, L.

Studies in Second Language Acquisition Albert Valdman Award 2022 We are pleased to announce that the winner of the Albert Valdman Award for outstanding publication in 2022 is: “Domain-General Auditory Processing Explains Multiple Dimensions of L2 Acquisition in Adulthood” by Kazuya Saito, Hui Sun, Magdalena Kachlicka, John Robert Carvajal Alayo, Tatsuya Nakata, and Adam Tierney. Please join us in congratulating these authors on their contribution to the journal and to the field. A note from this year’s winners: We express our gratitude to the review board of SSLA for granting our article the Albert Valdman award for outstanding publication this year. Albert Valdman Award 2022 We are pleased to announce that the winner of the Albert Valdman Award for outstanding publication in 2022 is: “Domain-General Auditory Processing Explains Multiple Dimensions of L2 Acquisition in Adulthood” by Kazuya Saito, Hui Sun, Magdalena Kachlicka, John Robert Carvajal Alayo, Tatsuya Nakata, and Adam Tierney. A note from this year’s winners:

Movie Scripts and Screenplays Ideas for Large Classes and Different Ways to Approach Content : ESLetc.com : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming In this Colorín Colorado podcast, Dr. Jesus Cortez, Professor of Professional Studies in Education at the Center for Bilingual/Multicultural Studies of California State University, Chico, discusses ways that schools can help motivate students to read, and offers tips for choosing quality children's literature. He also reflects on the importance of mindful teaching, and recommends titles of multicultural children's books that will resonate in diverse classrooms. In this Colorín Colorado podcast, Dr.

Grimm's law Sound shift in the Germanic languages Grimm's law (also known as the First Germanic Sound Shift) is a set of statements first systematically put forward by Jacob Grimm but first remarked upon by Rasmus Rask describing the Proto-Indo-European (PIE) stop consonants as they developed in Proto-Germanic (the common ancestor of the Germanic branch of the Indo-European family) in the 1st millennium BC. It establishes a set of regular correspondences between early Germanic stops, fricatives and the stop consonants of certain other centum Indo-European languages (Grimm used mostly Latin and Greek for illustration). History[edit] Grimm's law was the first discovery of a systematic sound change, and it led to the creation of historical phonology as a separate discipline of historical linguistics. Overview[edit] Grimm's law consists of three parts which form consecutive phases in the sense of a chain shift.[1] The phases are usually constructed as follows: Further changes[edit] Examples[edit]

My Students Help Assess My Teaching By Larry Ferlazzo "Today is an opportunity for you to challenge and push me to become a better teacher, and a time for you to challenge and push yourselves to be better learners." So I began my ninth-grade English class one day before the winter break. Our faculty, under Principal Ted Appel, has been working with Kelly for some years. This chance to closely examine my teaching "at a distance" has been one of the most significant professional-development experiences I’ve had. A Transformative Experience Kelly, who directs the Pebble Creek Labs, accepted my invitation to share the video and our critique in the presence of my students. What I didn’t anticipate was how transformative this one-hour class period was going to become. Kelly began with a quick review for students—using both text and images—of the culture of a Pebble Creek Lab classroom. •Leaning In—When we are engaged, we are learning forward, not slouching back. •Who’s Doing the Work? Kelly immediately asked me, "Mr. "Mr. "Mr.

ESL flow Exams & Testing Archives OUP offers a suite of English language tests: the Oxford Online Placement test (for adults), the Oxford Young Learners Placement Test, The Oxford Test of English (a proficiency test for adults) and, from April 2020, the Oxford Test of English for Schools. What’s the one thing that unites all these tests (apart from them being brilliant!)? Well, they are all adaptive tests. In this blog, we’ll dip our toes into the topic of adaptive testing, which I’ll be exploring in more detail in my ELTOC session. If you like this blog, be sure to come along to the session. The first standardized tests Imagine the scene. The first recorded standardised tests date back to the year 606. A revolution in testing Binet was an accomplished academic. The problem with paper-based tests We’ve all done paper-based tests: everyone gets the same paper of, say, 100 questions. But how are these linear tests constructed? Standard Error of Measurement Now we’ll develop this idea further. Figure 1. Figure 2. Not a member?

TRANS Nr. 15: Alina Fessenko (Tambov, Russia): Lexical meaning of the word: problems of realization. Alina Fessenko (Tambov, Russia) In the process of nomination only the lexical meaning of a word is formed, unlike the grammatical meaning which is not always conditioned. We can define that reason for the generation of such units as to hand, to water, to face is the nomination of their original nouns. Their existence is caused by the nominative productivity and the syntactical function in the expression that is a characteristic of it. So to be on coke in the expression they are on coke might denote either they are drinking Coca-Cola or they have solid-fuel heating or they use cocaine. Though in the abstract we don't make much of the fact that the context itself influences the function of a unit, it should be stressed that it's the context that is important for the decoding of verbalized information. From what has been said above we can derive the conclusion that the perceived meaning is decoded mainly with the help of context. Native-speakers often create new lexical units. 4.9.

Scripts A-M The various scripts listed on these pages are for educational purposes only. If you would like to submit a new script, or stumble across a dead link, please send me an E-Mail . July 14th 2008 : Scot Armstrong's screenplay for "Semi-Pro," June 2006 draft. March 1st 2008 : Wow, an actual update? Cable Guy, The - By Judd Apatow & Lou Holtz Jr. Carnivore - By Larry and Andy Wachowski. Casino - By Nicholas Pileggi & Martin Scorsese. Casino Royale - Neal Purvis, Robert Wade, Paul Haggis. Cast Away - By William Broyles Jr. [ Third Draft .] Cell, The - By Mark Protosevich. Cellular - By Cohen, Morgan, Gruber, Bress. Charlie's Angels - By Solomon, August, Penn. Chasing Amy - By Kevin Smith. Chasing Sleep - By Michael Walker. Cherry Falls - By Ken Selden. Children of Men - By Alfonso Cuarón & Timothy J. Chinatown - By Robert Towne. Cider House Rules, The - By John Irving. Cinema Paradiso - By Giuseppe Tornatore. City of Joy - By Gerald Brach and Roland Joffe. Clerks - By Kevin Smith. Dr. G.I.

ETAS learning technologies Google Back in March I published Google for Teachers. Since then it has been viewed more than 50,000 times. As much as that guide had in it, it didn't cover everything that Google offers to teachers. As always, this guide can be downloaded for free through DocStoc as well as through Yudu. View the guide in Yudu format below. View the guide in DocStoc format below.Google for Teachers II If you enjoyed Google for Teachers II, please take a look at my other free guides which are available here.

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